Short post today: Google Notebook

(Sorry for the short post, but I’m on my way to work)

… Google Notebook.

Still not launched, so neither notebook.google.com nor google.com/notebook is showing anything.

In Yes, we are still all about search Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience reveals that Google will launch Google Notebook next week.

Google Notebook is:

“…a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you’re searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.”

I’ve been looking for such a tool over the past few days because I never get the idea to a great thing on the computer where I will work further on the idea.
So far I’ve emailed notes to myself, or misused an online task scheduler to keep my notes and ideas, so I’m really looking forward to Google Notebook.

Google just launched Google Trends which can give you a insight into the trends of how popular a specific keyword or keyphrase has been over time.

It lacks specific numbers, but the graphs tells some interesting stories anyway.

Here are a few examples of trends:

• Bird flu
• Cartoons
• Netscape
• Web 2.0

A really neat feature is that you can use Google trends to do comparisons such as:

• Bush vs. Kerry
• Netscape vs. Firefox vs Internet Explorer

I also tried searching for “flowerdelivery” to see if it would spike at specific times each year - Mother’s Day for instance, but all I got back was a “403 Forbidden”.

We’re sorry…

… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.

I then tried “flower delivery” and got back two very distinct spikes plus two minor, but still very visible spikes

I just came across a very neat Extension to Firefox.

Have you ever wondered if a specific site would be “safe” to visit?

Or have you ever been to a site stat had one popup after the other?

Or how about finding all sorts of new browser addins, trojans and viruses after visiting a site or downloading some sort of freeware?

Here’s what you should do:

1. Install Firefox (if you haven’t done so already)
2. Download and install SiteAdvisor

Now try searching for “screensaver” in any search engine, and you should notice that each result has been tagged with a Red X, a Yellow questionmark or a Green checkmark.

Hover your mouse over the icon, and it’ll show some more info about the site.

This way you can know in advance if a site is in the clear, borderline suspicious or totally redflagged.